The ancient Anglo-Saxon culture once found in Britain is the soil from which the many generations of the Badgeldor family have grown. The name Badgeldor was given to a member of the family who was a knight, who in the exercise of chivalry has won his spurs, but hopes to be elected into some order. However, the nicknamebatchelor has remained somewhat of a puzzle to etymologists because it implied a sense of partial achievement of a desired goal rather than having a concrete origin. For example, a Bachelor of Arts is a person who has achieved a certain scholastic honor, but who also aspired to a higher degree of master or doctorate. A bachelor in common life was a person who had attained the age of manhood, but had not fulfilled the social relation of entering into matrimony.

Badgeldor Early Origins

Badgeldor Spelling Variations

Badgeldor Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Badgeldor family name include Batchelor, Bachelor, Bacheler, Batcheler, Batchellor and many more.

Badgeldor Early History

Badgeldor Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Badgeldor research. Another 125 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1572 and 1619 are included under the topic Early Badgeldor History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Badgeldor Early Notables (pre 1700)

Badgeldor Early Notables (pre 1700)

Notables of this surname at this time include: Daniel Bacheler, also spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (1572-1619) who was an English lutenist and composer. He was born in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire and worked for...

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The Great Migration

The Great Migration

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Badgeldor surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Henry Batchelor, a brewer, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1636; William Batchelor settled in Charles Town in 1634; and became a Freeman in 1644..

Bede, The Venerable. Historia Ecclesiatica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History Of the English People). Available through Internet Medieval Sourcebook the Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies. Print.

Shaw, William A. Knights of England A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, Ireland and Knights Bachelors 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print. (ISBN 080630443X).

The Badgeldor Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Badgeldor Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.